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Sarah P. Psutka, MD, MS

Chair

Sarah Psutka MD, MSc is a urologic oncologist and Assistant Professor of Urology at the University of Washington. She received her AB in Biology from Harvard College in 2003 and her MD from Harvard Medical School in 2007. She then completed an internship in General Surgery and Residency in Urology at the Massachusetts General Hospital in 2013. During this time, she completed the Clinical Effectiveness Research Program at the Harvard School of Public Health. She subsequently completed a Society of Urologic Oncology Fellowship in Urologic Oncology at the Mayo Clinic, and concurrently obtained her Masters in Clinical and Translational Science from the Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education in 2015. Following completion of her training, she joined the staff of the John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County in Chicago where she served as the Director of Urologic Oncology. During this time, Dr. Psutka also was named Assistant Professor of Urology at the Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine where she conducted clinical research in Bladder Cancer and taught resident trainees. In 2018, she was recruited to join the faculty of the University of Washington, where she now practices as a Urologic Oncologist. Her clinical practice is focused on the treatment of bladder cancer, renal cell carcinoma, and testis cancer. From a research standpoint, her main area of interest is in the study and development of personalized, comprehensive risk stratification measures in patients with urologic malignancies, particularly bladder cancer. She is focused on developing and validating risk stratification programs that will help patients better choose the optimal therapy for them, with the goal of not only improving personalized oncologic outcomes, but also patient reported outcomes such as quality of life. Specifically, she has expertise in the study of precise measurements of frailty and body composition with a focus on sarcopenia.

Aaron Lay, MD

Senior Consultant: Endourology and Minimally Invasive Surgery

Dr. Aaron Lay is an Assistant Professor at Emory University and is the Chief of Urology at Grady Memorial Hospital. He received his MD degree from Washington University in St Louis. He completed his general surgery internship and urology residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and did his endourology and minimally invasive surgery fellowship at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. He has expertise in robotic surgery and kidney stone disease.

Kyle Wood, MD

Senior Editor: Endourology and Minimally Invasive Surgery

Dr. Kyle Wood is an Associate Professor at The University of Alabama at Birmingham. He completed his undergraduate degree at Brown University, graduating with honors. He then attended medical school at University of Massachusetts, and completed his residency at Wake Forest University. Dr. Wood is fellowship trained in endourology with a primary focus on kidney stone disease.

His surgical expertise is in complex kidney stone disease and surgeries. He is a trained open, endoscopic, laparoscopic and robotic surgeon. Dr. Wood and nephrology have one of the only multidisciplinary metabolic kiney stone clinics in the Southeast. The focus of this clinic is on the workup of kidney stone formers and implementing dietary, medical and lifestyle modifications to prevent future kidney stones.

He is an AUA research scholar and is conducting kidney stone research. His focus is on the metabolic pathways that lead to kidney stone disease, specifically evaluating the role of obesity in kidney stone disease. His research has basic, translational and clinical projects.

Sarah Faris, MD

Senior Consultant: Urology Basics & Consults

Sarah Faris, MD is an associate professor of Urology at the University of Chicago. She completed her undergraduate at Princeton University, received her medical degree from the University of Michigan followed by urology residency at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Faris completed a GURS fellowship at the University of Iowa. Her practice focuses on male and female voiding dysfunction and reconstructive urology. Research interests include an ongoing RCT looking at the role of antibiotics in prosthetics, urologic trauma and reconstructive surgery outcomes. She is dedicated to resident education and is the urology Residency Program Director where she has developed a new didactic curriculum and implemented a new wellness curriculum. She is committed to diversity and inclusion and has founded an interdepartmental Women Surgeons Committee focusing on career development, mentorship and promoting the careers of women surgeons. Her efforts were recognized as winner of the 2022 University of Chicago Faculty Distinguished Leader in Diversity and Inclusion Award. She is committed to improving patient care and outcomes and serves as the Ambulatory Medical Director for Urology and Surgical Director of the DCAM Operating Room.

Jane Cho, MD

Senior Editor: Urology Basics & Consults

Andrew Cohen, MD

Senior Editor: Urology Basics & Consults

Dr. Andrew J. Cohen is an Associate Professor of Urology at Johns Hopkins. He serves as the Division Director of Benign Urology and Director of Advanced Practice Providers at the Johns Hopkins Brady Urological Institute. He has a robust clinical practice focusing on complex genitourinary reconstruction. In particular, he has interest in the management of erectile dysfunction, urinary incontinence, stricture diseases of the urinary system, peyronie's disease, genital skin conditions, buried penis, urinary diversion, and other benign urologic conditions. He has extensive experience in robotic surgery.

Soroush Rais-Bahrami, MD

Senior Consultant: Interventional Urology

Dr. Soroush Rais-Bahrami is an Assistant Professor of Urology and Radiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham as well as being a co-founder of the UAB Program for Personalized Prostate Cancer Care.

He received a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from the University of Maryland. He later received his Medical Degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and then completed residency training in urologic surgery at the Arthur Smith Institute for Urology at the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine in New York. Following residency he further specialized in urologic oncology as a fellow at the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health.

Dr. Rais-Bahrami has a strong interest in the development and implementation of imaging for the diagnosis, staging, and treatment of urologic cancers as well as developing, improving, and employing robotic and minimally-invasive techniques for the treatment of urologic malignancies.

Jessica Hannick, MD

Senior Editor: Interventional Urology

Dr. Jessica Hannick is Staff in the Cleveland Clinic's Center for Pediatric Urology. She is part of the Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute, Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital and holds the title of Assistant Professor of Urology at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine.

Dr. Hannick completed her undergraduate degree in Architectural studies at Tufts University and earned her medical degree from Rush University's Medical College in Chicago, IL. She completed her urology resident at Loyola University Medical Center and went on to The Hospital for Sick Children at the University of Toronto for fellowship training in pediatric urology.

Dr. Hannick is board certified in urology and pediatric urology and holds memberships in the American Board of Urology, the Societies for Pediatric Urology, the Society for Fetal Urology. Dr. Hannick has been consistently named in the list of Best Doctors by Cleveland Magazine since 2017.

Charles Welliver, MD

Senior Consultant: Sexual Medicine and Andrology

R Charles Welliver Jr, MD is an Associate Professor of Urology, Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs and Director of Men’s Health in the Department of Urology at Albany Medical College in Albany, New York. He received a BS from the University of Rochester in Biomedical Engineering and graduated from Stony Brook School of Medicine. Prior to completing a fellowship in Andrology, he completed residency at Albany Medical College. His clinical and research interests focus on BPH, male infertility, sexual dysfunction and other topics in men’s health.

He is a member of the American Board of Urology Exam Committee, the AUA Public Media committee, the Urology Cares Foundation Prostate Health Committee, the Sexual Medicine Society of North America Surgical Committee and is a senior consultant for the AUA Core Curriculum. He is a board member of the Society of Benign Prostate Disease. He is honored to be a graduate from the AUA Leadership Program.

Martin Gross, MD

Senior Editor: Sexual Medicine and Andrology

Martin S. Gross, MD, FACS is an Associate Professor of Urology at the Yale School of Medicine and a Men’s Health specialist for Yale New Haven Health. He is globally recognized as an expert in complex penile prosthesis surgery and penile prosthesis infection prevention and management. He earned his medical degree from UMDNJ – New Jersey Medical School, completed his urology residency at Boston University Medical Center, and went on to complete a Men’s Health fellowship at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center. He has coauthored more than 400 peer-reviewed journal articles, abstracts, videos and book chapters, and his research has garnered multiple awards. Dr. Gross serves on the Sexual Medicine Society of North America Board of Directors as Chair of the Surgical Committee, and also on the boards of the Barbara and Steve Wilson Educational Foundation and the Hispanic Urologists Society of North America. He is an Associate Editor for The Journal of Sexual Medicine and the Video Journal of Sexual Medicine. He teaches on Men’s Health topics and penile prosthesis surgical technique both domestically and internationally.

William Parker, MD

Senior Consultant: Oncology

William Parker MD is a urologic oncologist and Associate Professor of Urology at the University of Kansas Health System. He completed a BS in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Georgia in 2006 and received his MD from the Medical College of Georgia. He finished his Urology residency at The University of Kansas Health System and completed a Society of Urologic Oncology Fellowship in Urologic Oncology at the Mayo Clinic. Upon completing fellowship, he joined the faculty of the University of Kansas Health System Department of Urology. He is currently the director of the prostate cancer program, and his clinical practice focuses on the comprehensive care of prostate cancer.

Mary Beth Westerman, MD, FACS

Senior Editor: Oncology

Dr. Mary Elizabeth Westerman is a fellowship-trained urologic oncologist and Associate Professor of Urology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. She specializes in the treatment of all types of urologic cancers, including bladder, kidney, prostate, testicular, and penile cancers, as well as rare malignancies such as retroperitoneal sarcomas. Her clinical expertise spans both open and minimally invasive surgical approaches, with extensive experience in robotic surgery, including retzius-sparing prostatectomy, intracorporeal urinary diversion, and single-port techniques.

Bruce J. Schlomer, MD

Senior Consultant: Pediatrics

Bruce J. Schlomer, M.D., is a pediatric urologist at Children’s Health℠ and an assistant professor of urology at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

Dr. Schlomer earned his medical degree from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, and completed his urology residency at UT Southwestern in Dallas. He then completed his fellowship training in pediatric urology at the University of California San Francisco. Dr. Schlomer is active in medical education and directs the resident pediatric urology education program at Children’s Medical Center Dallas. He also teaches the American Urological Association (AUA) Board Review Course and has served on the AUA Core Curriculum writing committee.

Micah Jacobs, MD

Senior Editor: Pediatrics

Dr. Micah Jacobs earned his medical degree from Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut, after growing up in Houston. He completed his urologic residency at the Lahey Hospital and Medical Center in Burlington, Massachusetts, and fellowship training in pediatric urology at Seattle Children’s Hospital in Seattle, Washington. He also earned a master’s degree in Public Health while at the University of Washington.

Dr. Jacobs joined the urology team at Children’s Health in 2011 and is a Professor at UT Southwestern. He is board-certified in Urology and is an Assistant Professor and the Director of the Pediatric Urology Fellowship Program at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. His interests include congenital urologic abnormalities, spina bifida, minimally invasive surgery, complex urologic reconstruction and hypospadias.

Gregory Murphy, MD

Senior Consultant: Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery

Dr. Murphy went to medical school at the University of Massachusetts. His residency training was at the University of Connecticut followed by a fellowship in GU trauma and reconstruction at UCSF. Dr. Murphy is currently on faculty at Washington University School of Medicine.

Steven Weissbart, MD

Senior Editor: Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery

Dr. Steven Weissbart graduated Alpha Omega Alpha from The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, DC. He then completed his urology residency at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, NY, where he was awarded the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award. He then completed his fellowship in Female Pelvic Medicine & Reconstructive Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Weissbart is currently a faculty member of the Stony Brook University School of Medicine Department of Urology.